Marianne Stecher-Hansen is department chair and professor of Danish and Scandinavian Studies. Professor Stecher-Hansen teaches and publishes on 19^th- and 20^th century Scandinavian literary figures, materials and texts.  Her research engages cultural memory studies, literary criticism, postcolonial theory and textual studies in relation to the Nordic region, particularly Denmark. Her edited collection Nordic War Stories - World War II as History, Fiction, Media and Memory (2021; paperback 2024) is  published by Berghahn Books in the Worlds of Memory series.  She has also published The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen’s Essays (2014), distributed by the University of Chicago Press, and the critical commentary for Karen Blixen Værker; Skygger paa Græsset—Essays (2020), published by the Danish Society for Language and Literature (DSL) in Denmark.  Professor Stecher-Hansen teaches graduate seminars as well as undergraduate courses in Scandinavian literature and culture, advanced Danish language and literature as well as classes that are joint-listed in Global Literary Studies (GLITS) and European Studies (JSIS A).  She serves as the Review Editor for the journal of Scandinavian Studies.